Ridges, offsetting from the higher range, project in spurs laterally, creviced and water-worn, but to seaward escarped and bluff.
The fortified cavern is in the escarped cliff above the castle, with which there was, perhaps, a secret communication.
The houses were clustered near the foot of an escarped hill, where thinly-scattered pines relieved the glare of the naked limestone.
I knew, from what I had been told, that Murcens lay somewhere above the escarped cliff on my left, and at no great distance, but the difficulty was to reach it.
A path led me up the steep hillside to the foot of a long line of high rocks of yellowish limestone, so escarped and so forbidding to vegetable life that I did not see even a wild fig-tree hanging from a crevice.
Its walls are so escarped that the topmost crags in places overhang the path that winds about their base far below.
On either side of the gorge rose abrupt stony hills thinly wooded, chiefly with stunted oak, or escarped craggy cliffs pierced with yawning caverns.
So I found the auberge at Saint-Géry, where I waited long hours for the weather to change, after having received a soaking while climbing the escarped cliffs which rise so grandly on one side of the little town.
There is a coating of black vegetable earth, from six inches to a foot in thickness, covering these sandy hummocks, and some of the escarped sides appeared black, which was probably caused by soil washed from the summit.
These hills are sometimes escarped by the action of the water, and are then seen to consist of sand of various colours, in which very large logs of drift-timber are imbedded.
One of its sides being steeply escarped by the waves, showed its structure completely.
A single altar-shaped rock crowned the summit, from which the continuation of the ridge, right and left, fell away in a singularly graceful outline, the face of the mountain being precipitous with escarped cliffs.
Easy access to the Casteddu is gained by a circuitous avenue cut on the sloping side of the hill and under the escarped heights.
The face of the mountain is scaled either by rocky steps or by terraces cut in the escarped flanks, with quick returns, in the way such elevations are usually surmounted.
Il Torre di Seneca, as it is called, stands on an escarped pinnacle of rock, terminating one of the loftiest of the detached sugar-loaf hills.
A lane from Vayrac led up to the escarped sides of the Puy d'Issolu--the Uxellodunum of the Cadurci, according to Napoleon III.
The valley became again so narrow that the road was cut into the escarped side of the cliff, for the river ran close under it.
On the opposite side, the flanks of the mountain were escarped in abrupt blocks of rock, on the edge of which the vicunas and the lamas alone would have been able to place their delicate feet without fear of falling.
From this boy's wanderings, I collect that there is a woodland path through these grounds, skirting the river in some places, and carried along the mountain-side by a track escarped in the rock itself.
Descending slowly, they gained the plain before midnight, and now found themselves on that narrow strip of road which, escarped from the rock, tracks the margin of the lake for miles.
At this spot the river flowed majestically between two escarped banks, bordered by lofty rocks carved in the strangest fashion.
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